Gotham Bingo

Bingo event for Gotham (2014) | Round Two signups begin May 11th!

[gothambingo]

The BINGO posting period starts today!

Post your art, include which prompt you're filling and remember to @ us and tag the post with #gothambingo so we can share it, hopefully between those two things I'll see it despite tumblr shenanigans (but if not please poke us).

If you're posting fic on ao3 you can add it to our collection here.

And if you haven't signed up for a card yet you can still do so here.

The posting period runs from today (April 28th) through August 28th. Good luck and happy creating!

[hot-edits-of-the-ice-cold]

Jim Gordon's Sense that Oswald's Innocent

is a Gobblepot aspect I liked particularly in season 2 and in my opinion it's that same gaydar Oswald-ar that makes Jim not as suspicious about the Van Dahl family later on.

Gotham Bingo Round 2 Part 2: vintage/retro @gothambingo

link to the edit on Youtube and to the Tiktok version with a smaller frame

Cutting the TV into a usable piece was surisingly difficult 😂 Turns out my fingers manage editing but not that. 😜 In the end, I used circle parts to make it smooth cause it was pretty ugly by hand, like look at the difference:

(yes, the first one was after making it look better 🤫🫣)

things to do when there's no automatic text appearance options

bingo card under the cut

[broken-lycan]

"Stay with him"

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Jim Gordon/Edward Nygma Characters: Jim Gordon, Edward Nygma, Leslie Thompkins, Harvey Bullock (mentioned) Additional Tags: Injury, Worry, Autistic Edward Nygma, Bisexual Jim Gordon, Caretaking, Communication, Boundaries, Bisexual Edward Nygma, POV Alternating Wordcount: 4775 words

Summary: Jim has voiced his boundaries around physical affection at work. At first, Ed struggles to understand, so they have a conversation about it where Jim explains his reasons. And after having the reassurance that Jim isn't ashamed to be with him and that it's not because he’s a man, Ed is satisfied to respect Jim’s boundaries. Ed does, however, take those “rules” very seriously, which does at times lead him into predicaments. This is one of those times.

First entry for @gothambingo!!! for the prompt injury >:3 some thoughts as well as the bingo card with marked off fields is under the cut

also the screenshot in the banner is from 1x07 (penguin's umbrella) which interestingly is also a field on my bingo card xD

@redrose-alice I finished another fic!! :D

This whole fic came about because it really frustrated me how in 1x16 (I think) when Jim voices his discomfort with Lee being affectionate with him at work and Lee ignores it even though he asks her repeatedly. It just gets treated as this silly, stupid thing by the narrative, like it's something he just needs to get over. so yeah, fixed it and made it gay xD

I imagine Jim's reasons to be something like a need for privacy about his personal life and a shyness around physical affection that partially comes from the internalised need to keep up the strong man facade. doesn't mean that those aren't things for him to work on over time but he at least deserves to have his feelings validated. (to be clear this isn't a dig at Lee, I think this is a narrative/writing problem).

and what I’m very heavily leaning into with this fic is the autism thing where it can be difficult to understand rules/social conventions and when they’re allowed to be broken and in what ways and by whom. And because I wanted to be extra self-indulgent, I specifically wanted Ed to be able to ask when it becomes unclear to him. I wanted them to have a conversation about it where Ed doesn't get ridiculed or brushed off and can actually ask his questions to try to understand.

[hot-edits-of-the-ice-cold]

Art from my Silver St. Cloud edit ☁️🧜‍♀️ for @gothambingo

part 2 of this post (part 1 contains mostly sky and sea paintings) Kind of crazy how much I put into one edit. Here's my finished aesthetics:

I picked a lot of cloud images, so here all all of them 😂

Beach Scene by Albert Bierstadt (1871-1873)

the ceiling on the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (Italy) by Andrea Palladio (1580) and completed by Vicenzo Scamozzi (1585)

Study of Clouds by John Constable (1822)

Shiny silver metallic paint brush strokes from the website EveryTexture.com (I'm not an art snob, simple modern things can be very pretty)

Small Dutch Vessels in a Calm by Hendrik Dubbels (after 1670)

Geneva Sail Dreams Vita Schagen

Brewing by Scott Willhite

Rocky Mountain Landscape by Albert Bierstadt (1870)

Then we have these beautiful pieces:

Coronation of the Virgin by Diego Veláquez (between 1935-1936)

a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who, apparently designed by Steven Moffat

The Sirens by John Longstaff (1892)

The Oxbow by Thomas Cole (1836)

A Trio of Bottlenosed Dolphins by Karn M Berisford (an acrylic painting)

Sea Green Wave II by Catherine Kennedy

Last painting: New York from Brooklyn by Colin Campbell Cooper

I hope I didn't forget anything. Oof, that took long! But I wanted this to include the modern art, not just classics you may already know 💙 Especially since it's harder nowadays to find real art (non-AI). For example, I deactivated AI in search results but am pretty sure some results were still AI 🤪

What a nice (and hard 😆😂) project! Finally I can stop looking for variations of "sad blonde girl in blue dres" 🤣 And Silver hopefully gets some post-canon happiness 🙂‍↕️

gonna end this on: I love art, yeah!

[hot-edits-of-the-ice-cold]

Gotham 2014 Characters with Art Edit: Silver St. Cloud feat. Bruce Wayne☁️⛅️⛈️🧜‍♀️

Gotham Bingo Round 2 Part 1: Silver St. Cloud @gothambingo

The edit is both on Youtube (as a full video) and on Tiktok (as two short videos, starting with the first one)

My goal was finding similar art (usually paintings) to put next to scenes and in some cases try to blend into them.

Here are the top artworks in detail (scroll down if you only want to see the edit). You can consider my edit a love letter to art (including Gotham's cinematography) 😍😚

A Duchess (The Blue Dress) by Alfred Stevens

The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Pawlowitsch Brjullow

Woman in a Fur Coat by Marietta Cotton

4. L'orage by Pierre Auguste Cot

Jeune Fille lisant) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Hyde Park, London, 1990 by Camille Pissarro

Leukothea erscheint Odysseus im Sturm by Friedrich Preller der Ältere (tastefully censored by myself 😌😂)

a painting by Margaret Keane (possibly edited for the movie Big Eyes.)

Young Woman at a Sculpted Fountain by François Lemoyne. The man proposing was cut out, of course

Great White Herons by Frank Weston Benson (1920s or 1930s)

Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitzky (1864)

Bird in a Cage by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1937)

I will try to put as many as possible into a second post and make an aesthetic board out of these before I delete them from my device->

[gothambingo]

Hard at work making all your bingo cards :)

If you've signed up before today (the 15th) you should have gotten you bingo card, if not send me a message. If you haven't singed up, you can still do so here and get a card.

Posting period starts Monday! (and you can still get a card at anytime during the posting period)

[gothambingo]

And we're back! Gotham BINGO round TWO!!

What is it? A low stakes fandom creativity event

How do I participate? Sign-ups open today, May 11th, pick your card size, pick your categories, then let your creativity flow and use the prompts to make all kinds of cool Gotham art, fic, crafts, edits, anything you want! The posting period begins May 18th and runs through September 18th

Learn more about the event and the categories HERE, then sign up HERE!! Can't wait to see what everyone creates for this round :')

[gothambingo]

[testing] hello, hello, how's everyone feeling about another round 👀👀

[gothambingo]

Okay.... we're going again, sign-ups open Monday (the 11th), get hyped 👀

[gothambingo]

[testing] hello, hello, how's everyone feeling about another round 👀👀

[hot-edits-of-the-ice-cold]

Gotham Royalty AU - What if the Galavans were royals? feat. Barbara Queen 👑

Gotham Bingo Round 1 Part 9: Royalty AU (I already posted some things when the challenge (@gothambingo) was going, but decided to wait to give the edit its deserved time):

and on Tiktok (probably better on a big screen, but on long videos you can put it to the side too)

And the art I created for it (sometimes isn't visible for long in the edit):

Their castle (see how I included Galavan Tower? 💖)

Originally the sky wasn't dark enough either. And I added a lot in size too.

The surviving royals: (ignore the sofa. I couldn't move Silver over it cause the Tabitha image wasn't big enough on the side).

Headlines (these took me three hours but were so fun, I recommend it for people who like editing! 😄 Oh and the magazine is totally made from scratch)

the press would so talk about Tabitha's fashion choices!

"Can two orphans find love?" 😱😭

Aww, Barbara got an actual wedding 🥰 Instead of, you know, what happend with Jim

Spoilers for the rest of the edit:

[tunglo]

Harvey's POV of chapter 325 ('time travel') for prompt 8 'horror' on my @gothambingo card. TW for self-harm, suicidal thoughts, etc.

13,700 words | rated E

One more to go! :D

[tunglo]

Another fill for my @gothambingo card:

'Time Travel' - 2,700 words | rated T

(very much inspired by today's @whumpuary prompts of tied up / winter)

Set after Jim takes over the captaincy and Harvey tells him go screw himself. Jim reaches peak untreated breakdown but gets therapy in the only way Gotham can offer…

[tunglo]

Finally finished a fic for the @gothambingo I signed up to in summer... I've just had no time to write this year. So, naturally, when I find time I just churn out tropey smut. Ah, well.

Prompt: 'Confession'

2700 words | rated E, Jim/Harvey

(And if anyone has any fic ideas to help me finish my card please feel free to send them over. I feel like I overestimated my ability to find something, anything, I hadn't written in the last 320+ lol.)

[nevereverthem]

Gotham fanfiction & Gotham Bingo :

I wrote the entirety of my first draft on the 8th of August, this summer.

The next day, I tried editing, but somehow couldn't. I had things going on in my life, then tried to edit again to no avail. I eventually began to do it for real some weeks ago...

Now, after two months of writing struggles, life havoc, fussing over sentences that refused to english, and freaking grammar details, I finally posted my second NYGMOBBLEPOT FANFICTION! 🎉🎉

The sweet @jeromeclarke107 beta'd my work. She helped me a lot so you've got her contribution to thank for this fic' ! 💞

In the end, tiny issues were also solved by my friend @ghost-bison ! ❤️

It is a 1,887 words long One Shot (a rather short story, but I thought the idea was cute and I really wanted to write it) in which Oswald pays Ed a visit in Arkham.

Hints : wedding proposal. 🫣💍

Teaser :

On the way to meet the mysterious visitor, they passed by the rooms used for medical appointments and police interviews.

Riddler was perplexed, marching towards the unknown direction with one thought in mind: if this was not an official meeting, who was paying him a courtesy visit?

Nobody had ever come to see him since he had been sent to Arkham all those years ago, and the only person Ed wanted to see anyway was not allowed to—

“Oswald.”

You can find the AO3 link down below :

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(My handle is different there, but it is still me. 🥺)

By the way... 🙄 @gothambingo

I know the challenge has been over for a while now, but I guess me creating content based on the Bingo card is still valid. 🙄

I am checking another box :

"What good's freedom if you're alone?"

[gothambingo]

Now that round one is over it's time to start thinking about round two!

If you participated in round one, or if you're thinking about participating in round two and have a few minutes please answer a few questions so we can make round two as good as it can be!

[gothambingo]

And that's a wrap on round one! Thank you all so much for participating and especially to @fake-monalisa for advising and assisting at all stages of this project especially for egging me on at the very start to actually run it when I was convinced like, two people would sign up!

If I counted correctly we had sixty-six fills posted, which is awesome, I hope you enjoyed making cool stuff.

See you soon(ish) for round two!

[zebrashavestripes]

If Fate Is What Defines Us (AO3)

Summary:

Fate. It felt like fate. When he put to bed all that grief. Stumbled upon all that hope. Serendipity. That they’d been that close. That section of the woods. That time, that day. Destiny. What else would they call it? They found each other without trying. Everything had been so… easy.

Ed could still picture it. The creature soft and slow between his sheets. Then fresh from a morning shower, skin bare as Ed applied another set of bandages. Then under the glow of the city lights, singing and hollering the lullaby at the top of its lungs. Making a sandwich in the kitchen. Demanding his phone number at the breakfast table. Leaning against his side.

Heart pounding. Breath heaving. It was enough. Stomach churning, palms sweating. Just to have known him. Jaw clenching, eyes closing. To be known by him.

That’s what this was all for, wasn’t it? Someone to think about. Something to wish for. One last sweet memory. Somebody to live for.

Written for @gothambingo prompt: Ed's Loft

And with that, the bingo board is complete!!!!

I really hope I saved the best for last. It really feels like I did. I've been working on this fic for months, I was super inspired by these thoughts I have about Ed and Oswald's time together in Season 2, and I HAD to write them down, it was too good to ignore.

A lot of Red String and typing at 5 am and this is the result! I'm super proud of it, and I hope people like it too! Season2 is a great time to explore and I'd love to hear people's thoughts about that those episodes if you're willing to share them. But yeah, enjoy! Read, kudos, comment, like reblog, whatever! I hope it brings some joy :3